european short movies - fictions 3

A day in the life of an Italian lonely factory worker. When he gets home, he eats up a can of beans, zaps through the TV channels, has a smoke and a drink. Then he sees his guitar hanging there and plays and sings a song by Hank Williams. Beautiful, well acted study of loneliness that ends with a glimmer of hope.

Sculptured as a poetic movement with a desire to catch that dreamy state of breath and to visualize the rhythm of the substance pulsating between the real and unreal. Film like a dream itself.

A stranger arrives in the city looking for work, love and respect. We travel with him; briefly dipping into other lives, treading a tragically inevitable road that leads him back to the beginning.

Paris. Lil' Louis, a homeless man, and Safia - his guardian angel - walk around a miniature world, where destiny is built from humour, tenderness and bitterness. More than a simple story, a tribute to anonymous people.

Thrown out of unstable home, fourteen-year-old Cara finds solace with friends, but her erratic behaviour leads to devastating consequences. An uncompromising coming of age drama that explores the cycle of depravation in Scotland's poorest communities.

Mike is trying to get a difficult client to buy his candy. But when the client offers him the candy he's trying to sell, Mike seems frightened. Why is he so scared of the candy?

Arthur lives alone in a little room of an old people's home. The rhythm of his days is interrupted solely by the visits of Julie, the nurse. No one else ever comes to visit him. Therefore, when Julie tells him about the visit of Bernard, Arthur gets dressed as for a wedding. But who is this visitor? Is he there for the good of Arthur? And Julie? Is she really a devoted nurse?